Bao Returns

Mysterious Guest of Honour I personally invited ---



it's none other than Mr.Chingay!!! or 性感小野猫 which he calls himself








Bao & Gay 4-years ago,





Bao & Gay 4-years later...







Sya & his new $600+ Sony digital camera...







Evil daughter armed with camera as well...






Having lunch @ Arab St





mr.Gay & his stunt video






Dessert @ Bugis,

Sya having trouble understanding the menu even though its in English







Double milk + mango syrup,
looks like egg yolk + egg white







After which we went to play pool...






This place is much cheaper than the $9/hour one nearby...







Bao & Jianhuiiiiiii teaching my daughter how to play pool...







After which we bought apple strudel & came to my place to watch the British F1 Grand Prix!

Australia Trip - Part17

Last day of the Australia Trip...




I knew the Nike staffs were lying,
there's the crazy 2-hours only 40% sale everyday!







Lunch @ the nearby Vietnam-Thai restaurant where the food taste Chinese...








Princess Theatre

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Half-way, the tram stopped, all passengers were told to get down, as there's a protest going on (which is blocking the way)







The guard outside the parliament told me its a Macedonian protest,
that's something you don't see in Singapore!








My first & last cup of coffee @ Melbourne,
there's at least 3 Hudsons Coffee in one single terminal!


Btw, buy-1-free-1 for YHA members =)







Boarding our flight back, this is the last photo...

Australia Trip - Part16

Today is the "coldest morning in nearly a decade" -Mix 101.1fm




The driver insisted that it's not pollution, but rather "industrial mist" to be the more appropriate term






Toilet stop where we had some light refreshments







Driver's recommended restaurant, S$18+ for a plate of Singapore Noodle, not including service charge & 10% GST...








Instead we had a freshly made pizza for $12, serves 2...







The more remote the location, the more expensive wireless costs...







You can read it yourself...







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Optional helicopter ride available at a price...







Another so-call London Bridge






Top shelf = free food, that's where Jianhuiiiii found his dinner...







Looking for the Double Happiness Bar, in the end we found place filled with ang mohs & Bao can't drink anyway...







So we had drinks @ probably the best Italian cafe in town, the famous Brunetti

Australia Trip - Part15

Railway Square

YHA & their train carriage room..

Google Maps: Railway

Square YHA Sydney







Hint: Store your luggage in YHA lockers, its 3x

cheaper than outside ones & you don't have to be a member/staying there to

use them...







Burger King for dinner, they call it Hungry Jacks there for some reason,

guess its a trademark issue...







Pigeons flying & pooping everywhere, those crazy football fans made the

Friday night worse...







FREE travelpass giveaway!







I wonder who took it in the end...







Finally we are back @ Melbourne!!!

Google Maps: GPO Melbourne

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Took tram all the way to the edge of Zone 1, the max our travelpass allows...







Everybody drives here, except 2 idiots who WALKED here...

Google Maps: Essendon DFO

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No good deals @ all, everything is identical to the DFO in the city... sucks~







Headed back to the city to meet Bao, again...







Had dinner in the same Ferrari decorated Italian restaurant @ Lygon St







Excellent pasta @ a reasonable price...

Australia Trip - Part14

Cooking breakfast @ the hostel's kitchen.

Kinda surprised to find everything from salt to bbq sauce to curry powder to cooking oil spray..







My flattened breakfast








Laksa for A$12.50 (S$17.50)!! Same goes for wanton mee...








Queen Victoria Building

Google Maps: Queen Victoria Building







Later I finally managed to find the code & registered for CeBit Sydney 2008






You received this bar code thru email upon registration,
then shoot it with your (camera) phone






Open the image you taken earlier on,
scan the phone's LCD screen on this machine...






Poof! There's your entry pass!







Almost every visitor wear suits, except me...






Panasonic's 103-inch professional class full HD plasma







Cross-Fire themed casing...







Thermaltake & their LCS...







$7,000 Sony Blu-Ray laptop...







LN2 overclocking never fails to draw crowds, especially when the assistant wearing AMD lanyard is refilling LN2 for the Intel rig. =D






3DMark06 running on a single GTX...







Thanks blogger zone for the free usage of their notebooks...







Perfect gift for Bao, who gets lost even equipped with a GPS!